Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ("Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ") is a British government office. He is formally responsible for the duchy, but the leadership is taken over by a body, the council . The actual official burdens of the Chancellor have been so low for decades that the holder of this post is practically a freely available minister with no portfolio .
The post has been held by the previous Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Michael Gove , since the Johnson Cabinet took over government on July 24, 2019 . His duties as Non-Portfolio Minister include overseeing the Cabinet office and overseeing the impact of Brexit on devolution in the UK.
The office has often been given to young cabinet members who are entrusted with responsibilities in a specific area of politics for which there is no institutionalized ministerial office. It was also given to veteran politicians as a sinecure to close their political career, as a comfortable end to their political career. In the past, however, the office has sometimes served as a political sideline for fallen greats on the political stage. This was the case with Winston Churchill, who in 1915 during the First World War, after the failure of the Gallipoli expedition he had initiated , for which he was publicly held responsible, had to resign from the office of Minister of the Navy as one of the core offices of the British government. only to be deported to the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - meaningless in its influence on the war.
More recently, office has been linked to serving as Minister for the Cabinet Office , as in the case of Alan Milburn , who had received the title of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 2004 while rejoining the Cabinet. This enabled him to have a seat in the cabinet without having to take on a time-consuming government post, so that he could devote himself to his duties as campaign manager in the general election in 2005 with full government proximity.
List of Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster
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October 6, 1399 | November 25, 1402 | William Burgoyne | The date on which the fees were paid was assumed to be the date on which the office began. |
November 25, 1402 | March 3, 1405 | John Wakering | The date on which the fees were paid was assumed to be the date on which the office began. |
March 3, 1405 | March 11, 1410 | Thomas Stanley | He died while in office. |
March 30, 1410 | April 4, 1413 | John Springthorpe | |
April 4, 1413 | January 27, 1431 | John Wodehouse | He died while in office. |
February 16, 1431 | February 2, 1449 | Walter Shiryngton | He died while in office. |
February 2, 1449 | September 23, 1450 | William Tresham | He died while in office. |
September 23, 1450 | June 10, 1471 | John Say | He was made a knight in 1465. |
June 10, 1471 | November 3, 1477 | Richard Fowler | He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1469 to 1471 . |
November 3, 1477 | 1478 | John Say | He died while in office. |
April 22, 1478 | July 7, 1483 | Thomas Thwaites | He was Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1471 to 1483. |
July 7, 1483 | September 13, 1485 | Thomas Metcalfe | |
September 13, 1485 | August 5, 1503 | Reginald Bray | He died while in office. |
June 24, 1504 | October / November 1504 | John Mordaunt | He died while in office. |
October 3, 1505 | after April 22, 1509 | Richard Empson | He was dismissed. |
May 14, 1509 | April 6, 1523 | Henry Marney | He was made Baron Marny shortly before his death in 1523 . |
April 6, 1523 | July 22, 1525 | Richard Wingfield | He died while in office. |
September 30, 1525 | November 3, 1529 | Thomas More | |
November 3, 1529 | October 15, 1542 | William Fitzwilliam | He was named Earl of Southampton in 1537 . He died while in office. |
October 1542 | July 1, 1547 | John Gage | |
July 1, 1547 | July 7, 1552 | William Paget | Baron Paget since 1549 |
July 7, 1552 | 1553 | John Gates | |
1553 | November 28, 1557 | Robert Rochester | He died while in office. |
January 22, 1558 | January 24, 1559 | Edward Waldgrave | |
January 24, 1559 | April 2, 1568 | Ambrose Cave | He died while in office. |
May 16, 1568 | May 30, 1587 | Ralph Sadler | He died while in office. |
June 15, 1587 | April 6, 1590 | Francis Walsingham | He died while in office. |
June 1590 | October 17, 1595 | Thomas Heneage | He died while in office. |
October 23, 1595 | October 7, 1597 | vacant | |
October 7, 1597 | June 18, 1599 | Robert Cecil | |
June 18, 1599 | September 24, 1601 | vacant | |
September 24, 1601 | October 8, 1601 | John Fortescue | |
October 8, 1601 | November 4, 1601 | vacant | |
November 4, 1601 | December 23, 1607 | John Fortescue | He died during his 2nd term. |
December 23, 1607 | May 31, 1616 | Thomas Parry | He died while in office. |
June 5, 1616 | January 1618 | John Dacombe | |
February 3, 1618 | March 23, 1618 | vacant | |
March 23, 1618 | April 16, 1629 | Humphrey May | |
April 16, 1629 | December 1644 | Edward Barrett | He died while in office. |
December 10, 1644 | February 10, 1645 | Francis, Lord Seymour | |
February 10, 1645 | March 17, 1648 | William Gray and William Lenthall | |
March 17, 1648 | July 28, 1649 | Gilbert Gerrard | |
July 28, 1649 | 17th September 1653 | John Bradshaw | |
17th September 1653 | February 28, 1654 | John Bradshaw and Thomas Fell | |
February 28, 1654 | December 5, 1658 | Thomas Fell | |
December 5, 1658 | February 27, 1660 | John Bradshaw | 2. Sole term of office |
February 27, 1660 | March 14, 1660 | William Lenthall | |
March 14, 1660 | July 9, 1660 | Gilbert Gerrard | 2. Term of office |
July 9, 1660 | July 12, 1664 | Francis Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Trowbridge | He died while in office. |
July 21, 1664 | February 13, 1672 | Thomas Ingram | He died while in office. |
February 22, 1672 | November 14, 1682 | Robert Carr, 3rd Baronet | He died while in office. |
November 14, 1682 | March 15, 1687 | Thomas Chicheley | |
March 15, 1687 | May 25, 1687 | vacant | |
May 25, 1687 | March 21, 1689 | Robert Phelips | |
March 21, 1689 | May 4, 1697 | Robert Bertie, Baron Willoughby de Eresby | |
May 4, 1697 | May 12, 1702 | Thomas Gray, 2nd Earl of Stamford | |
May 12, 1702 | June 1, 1706 | Sir John Leveson-Gower, Bt. | |
June 1, 1706 | September 21, 1710 | James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby | |
September 21, 1710 | November 4, 1714 | William Berkeley, 4th Baron Berkeley of Stratton | |
November 4, 1714 | March 12, 1716 | Heneage Finch | He was named 1st Earl of Aylesford in 1714. |
March 12, 1716 | June 19, 1717 | Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarborough | |
June 19, 1717 | June 18, 1727 | Nicholas Lechmere, 1st Baron Lechmere | He died while in office. |
July 24, 1727 | May 17, 1736 | John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland | |
May 17, 1736 | December 22, 1743 | George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley | |
December 22, 1743 | January 24, 1758 | Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe | |
January 24, 1758 | December 13, 1762 | Thomas Hay, 9th Earl of Kinnoull | |
December 13, 1762 | June 1, 1771 | James Smith-Stanley | He died while in office. |
June 14, 1771 | April 17, 1782 | Thomas Villiers | He was made 1st Earl of Clarendon in 1776. |
April 17, 1782 | August 29, 1783 | John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton | |
August 29, 1783 | December 31, 1783 | Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby | |
December 31, 1783 | September 6, 1786 | Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon | 2. Term of office |
September 6, 1786 | November 11, 1803 | Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool | |
November 11, 1803 | June 6, 1804 | Thomas Pelham | |
June 6, 1804 | January 14, 1805 | Henry Phipps | |
January 14, 1805 | July 10, 1805 | Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire | |
July 10, 1805 | February 12, 1806 | Dudley Ryder | |
February 12, 1806 | March 30, 1807 | Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby | 2. Term of office |
March 30, 1807 | June 23, 1812 | Spencer Perceval | |
June 23, 1812 | August 23, 1812 | Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire | 2. Term of office |
August 23, 1812 | February 13, 1823 | Charles Bathurst | |
February 13, 1823 | January 26, 1828 | Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley | |
January 26, 1828 | June 2, 1828 | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen | |
June 2, 1828 | November 25, 1830 | Charles Arbuthnot | |
November 25, 1830 | December 20, 1830 | Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland | |
December 20, 1830 | December 26, 1834 | Thomas Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington | |
December 26, 1834 | April 23, 1835 | Charles Williams Wynn | |
April 23, 1835 | October 31, 1840 | Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland | 2. Term of office |
October 31, 1840 | June 23, 1841 | George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon | |
June 23, 1841 | September 3, 1841 | George Gray | |
September 3, 1841 | July 6, 1846 | Charles Henry Somerset, Lord Grenville | |
July 6, 1846 | March 6, 1850 | John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell | |
March 6, 1850 | March 1, 1852 | George Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle | |
March 1, 1852 | December 30, 1852 | Robert Nisbet-Hamilton | |
December 30, 1852 | June 21, 1854 | Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper | |
June 21, 1854 | March 31, 1855 | Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville | |
March 31, 1855 | December 7, 1855 | Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby | |
December 7, 1855 | February 26, 1858 | Matthew Talbot Baines | |
February 26, 1858 | June 22, 1859 | James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose | |
June 22, 1859 | July 25, 1861 | George Gray | 2. Term of office |
July 25, 1861 | April 7, 1864 | Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell | |
April 7, 1864 | January 26, 1866 | George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon | 2. Term of office |
January 26, 1866 | July 10, 1866 | George Goschen | |
July 10, 1866 | June 26, 1867 | William Courtenay, 11th Earl of Devon | |
June 26, 1867 | November 7, 1868 | John Wilson-Patten | |
November 7, 1868 | December 12, 1868 | Thomas Edward Taylor | |
December 12, 1868 | August 9, 1872 | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava | |
August 9, 1872 | September 30, 1873 | Hugh Childers | |
September 30, 1873 | March 2, 1874 | John Bright | |
March 2, 1874 | April 29, 1880 | Thomas Edward Taylor | 2. Term of office |
April 29, 1880 | July 25, 1882 | John Bright | 2. Term of office |
July 25, 1882 | December 28, 1882 | John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley | |
December 28, 1882 | October 29, 1884 | John George Dodson | |
October 29, 1884 | July 24, 1885 | George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet | |
July 24, 1885 | February 6, 1886 | Henry Chaplin | |
February 6, 1886 | April 16, 1886 | Edward Heneage, 1st Baron Heneage | |
April 16, 1886 | August 3, 1886 | Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth, 2nd Baronet | |
August 3, 1886 | August 16, 1886 | Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook | |
August 16, 1886 | August 18, 1892 | John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland | |
August 18, 1892 | May 28, 1894 | James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce | |
May 28, 1894 | June 29, 1895 | Edward Marjoribanks, 2nd Baron Tweedmouth | |
June 29, 1895 | 4th July 1895 | Richard Cross | |
4th July 1895 | August 11, 1902 | Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford | |
August 11, 1902 | December 11, 1905 | William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran | |
December 11, 1905 | October 19, 1908 | Henry Fowler | |
October 19, 1908 | June 28, 1909 | Edmond Fitzmaurice | |
June 28, 1909 | February 19, 1910 | Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel | |
February 19, 1910 | October 24, 1911 | Jack Pease | |
October 24, 1911 | February 12, 1914 | Charles Hobhouse | |
February 12, 1914 | February 10, 1915 | Charles Masterman | |
February 10, 1915 | May 27, 1915 | Edwin Samuel Montagu | |
May 27, 1915 | November 30, 1915 | Winston Churchill | |
November 30, 1915 | January 12, 1916 | Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel | 2. Term of office |
January 12, 1916 | July 12, 1916 | Edwin Samuel Montagu | 2. Term of office |
July 12, 1916 | December 13, 1916 | McKinnon Wood | |
December 13, 1916 | March 4, 1918 | Frederick Cawley, 1st Baron Cawley | |
March 4, 1918 | November 8, 1918 | Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook | |
November 8, 1918 | February 10, 1919 | William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham | |
February 10, 1919 | April 5, 1921 | David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford | |
April 5, 1921 | May 5, 1922 | William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel | |
May 5, 1922 | October 26, 1922 | William Sutherland | |
October 26, 1922 | May 28, 1923 | James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury | |
May 28, 1923 | January 23, 1924 | JCC Davidson | |
January 23, 1924 | November 19, 1924 | Josiah Wedgwood | |
November 19, 1924 | November 3, 1927 | Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | |
November 3, 1927 | June 8, 1929 | Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun | |
June 8, 1929 | May 24, 1930 | Oswald Mosley | |
May 24, 1930 | March 20, 1931 | Clement Attlee | |
March 20, 1931 | August 26, 1931 | Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede | |
August 26, 1931 | November 12, 1931 | Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian | |
November 12, 1931 | May 28, 1937 | JCC Davidson | 2. Term of office |
May 28, 1937 | February 2, 1939 | Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton | |
February 2, 1939 | April 5, 1940 | William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil | |
April 5, 1940 | May 15, 1940 | George Tryon, 1st Baron Tryon | |
May 15, 1940 | July 22, 1941 | Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey | |
July 22, 1941 | November 17, 1943 | Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich | |
November 17, 1943 | May 28, 1945 | Ernest Brown | |
May 28, 1945 | August 14, 1945 | Arthur Salter, 1st Baron Salter | |
August 14, 1945 | April 23, 1947 | John Burns Hynd | |
April 23, 1947 | June 22, 1948 | Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford | |
June 22, 1948 | March 16, 1950 | Hugh Dalton | |
March 16, 1950 | October 31, 1951 | Albert Alexander | |
October 31, 1951 | December 15, 1952 | Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton | |
December 15, 1952 | December 22, 1955 | Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton | |
December 22, 1955 | January 14, 1957 | George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk | |
January 14, 1957 | October 9, 1961 | Charles Hill, Baron Hill of Luton | |
October 9, 1961 | October 20, 1963 | Iain Macleod | |
October 20, 1963 | October 18, 1964 | John Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham | |
October 18, 1964 | April 6, 1966 | Douglas Houghton, Baron Houghton of Sowerby | |
April 6, 1966 | 7th January 1967 | George Thomson | |
7th January 1967 | October 6, 1969 | Frederick Lee | |
October 6, 1969 | June 20, 1970 | George Thomson | 2. Term of office |
June 20, 1970 | July 25, 1970 | Anthony Barber, Baron Barber | |
July 25, 1970 | 5th November 1972 | Geoffrey Rippon | |
5th November 1972 | March 5th 1974 | John Davies | |
March 5th 1974 | 4th May 1979 | Harold Lever, Baron Lever of Manchester | |
4th May 1979 | 5th January 1981 | Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley | |
5th January 1981 | September 14, 1981 | Francis Pym | |
September 14, 1981 | April 7, 1982 | Janet Young, Baroness Young | |
April 7, 1982 | June 11, 1983 | Cecil Parkinson | |
June 11, 1983 | September 11, 1984 | Arthur Cockfield | |
September 11, 1984 | 2nd September 1985 | Gray Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie | |
2nd September 1985 | June 13, 1987 | Norman Tebbit | |
June 13, 1987 | July 25, 1988 | Kenneth Clarke | |
July 25, 1988 | July 24, 1989 | Tony Newton | |
July 24, 1989 | November 28, 1990 | Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking | |
November 28, 1990 | April 10, 1992 | Chris Patten | |
April 10, 1992 | July 20, 1994 | William Waldegrave | |
July 20, 1994 | June 26, 1995 | David Hunt | |
June 26, 1995 | May 2, 1997 | Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman | |
May 2, 1997 | July 27, 1998 | David Clark, Baron Clark of Windermere | |
July 27, 1998 | October 11, 1999 | Jack Cunningham | |
October 11, 1999 | June 7, 2001 | Mo Mowlam | |
June 7, 2001 | June 13, 2003 | Gus Macdonald, Baron Macdonald of Tradeston | |
June 13, 2003 | September 8, 2004 | Douglas Alexander | |
September 8, 2004 | May 6, 2005 | Alan Milburn | |
May 6, 2005 | November 2, 2005 | John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness | |
November 2, 2005 | May 5, 2006 | vacant | |
May 5, 2006 | June 27, 2007 | Hilary Armstrong, Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | |
June 27, 2007 | October 3, 2008 | Ed Miliband | |
October 3, 2008 | June 5, 2009 | Liam Byrne | |
June 5, 2009 | May 11, 2010 | Janet Royall | |
May 11, 2010 | January 7, 2013 | Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde | |
January 7, 2013 | July 14, 2014 | Jonathan Hill, Baron Hill of Oareford | |
July 14, 2014 | July 14, 2016 | Oliver Letwin | |
July 14, 2016 | January 8, 2018 | Patrick McLoughlin | |
January 8, 2018 | July 24, 2019 | David Lidington | |
July 24, 2019 | officiating | Michael Gove | |
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literature
- Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Third Edition, London, 1986, ISBN 0-521-56350-X , pp. 149-153
Web links
- The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on the UK Government website
- The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster on the Duchy of Lancaster website
- Dates for the list on www.encyclopedia4u.com ( Memento from March 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)